Bug#899192: lintian: header-has-overly-generic-name false positives on names merely containing util.h
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.87
Severity: normal
The new check for header-has-overly-generic-name seems too sensitive:
> E: libmutter-2-dev: header-has-overly-generic-name usr/include/mutter/meta/util.h
This one is canonically included as <meta/util.h> while compiling with
`pkg-config --cflags libmutter-2`, which is just as well-namespaced as
any other header. (Mutter headers are <meta/*> for historical reasons:
it's a descendant of the GNOME 2 window manager, Metacity.)
> E: libmutter-2-dev: header-has-overly-generic-name usr/include/mutter/clutter-2/cally/cally-util.h
> E: libmutter-2-dev: header-has-overly-generic-name usr/include/mutter/clutter-2/clutter/deprecated/clutter-util.h
Those are definitely not a problem - they can be accused of many things,
but insufficient namespacing is not among them :-)
Please drop the certainty for this tag, or make the regex tighter.
smcv
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.30-20
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii file 1:5.33-2
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.99-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.74-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.3-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-5
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.30-20
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1
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